A Texas man has been executed for the rape and slaying of a woman abducted while she was trying to make a call at a pay phone 10 years ago.

The rhythmic thump-thump-thump reverberates throughout the cavernous building like a heartbeat, or the dance floor of a rockin’ good club.

Texas has executed a parole violator for beating and using kitchen tools to kill a 67-year-old woman during a robbery at her Lubbock apartment.

Texas has executed a man who killed his former next-door neighbor in her San Antonio home and stabbed her 10-year-old son in the chest as the child tried to defend the...

A Fort Worth man convicted of gunning down his ex-girlfriend and her friend after stalking her to collect a debt was executed Tuesday night as his mother begged him not...

Texas has executed a Fort Worth man convicted of opening fire with an assault rifle to gun down a woman and a friend after stalking her to collect a debt.

Texas has executed the convicted killer of a Houston man gunned down during a botched burglary.

An Oklahoma man convicted of shooting an 85-year-old woman to death during a burglary in far northeast Texas in 1993 was executed Tuesday night.

A 13-year-old boy has been found a day after he went into an eastern Texas national forest for a map-reading exercise.

Searchers with dogs are looking for a 13-year-old junior ROTC member missing overnight in an eastern Texas national forest.

A German rocket scientist who helped put an American on the moon has died in Alabama. Konrad Danneberg was 96.

A man blamed for numerous killings and rapes has been executed in Texas for the murder of a woman who was raped, beaten and left to die on a Houston street.

A Louisiana man condemned for strangling and drowning a suburban Dallas woman, charged with a second slaying and blamed for the rapes of at least five other women was...

Texas has executed a parolee convicted of using a baseball bat to fatally bludgeon his girlfriend and her teenage son at their home in San Antonio.

Texas has executed a prison gang member who fatally injected a fellow inmate with an overdose of heroin in retaliation for snitching on him.

Texas has executed a former Houston security guard for gunning down four people, including his ex-girlfriend and her two small children, during a 1996 shooting frenzy.

Two condemned killers were put to death Thursday evening in Oklahoma and Texas, becoming the nation’s third and fourth executions of the year.

A man that authorities say was a member of at least three violent street gangs was put to death Wednesday for killing two people outside a bar 15 years ago in San...

A man convicted of murdering three people during a night of robberies more than 13 years ago in Fort Worth was put to death Wednesday evening in the nation’s...

A scientist-turned-van driver in Alabama whose work helped two other men win this year’s chemistry Nobel Prize is headed to Sweden to watch them collect the...